Day 1,192: strain

A new strain of shareholder activism sponsored by hedge funds was more associated with value improvements.

Artwork of the day 
The Low Clouds, the Trees in Their Frozen Immobility – Everything is So Strained, That It Seems to Have Reached a Breaking Point
Marc Horowitz
Date: 2016
Style: Abstract Expressionism
Genre: figurative

Word of the day 
strain: a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes causing damage

Quote of the day
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close